• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    People who are proud of not voting make me angry. It’s one thing to quietly not vote because you don’t think about it. It’s a whole higher level to proudly declare you can’t be bothered to care about the future of your country

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      I mean, I know a few people who don’t vote since from their perspective it makes no real difference who wins nationally, besides their vote would be insignificant, and locally just don’t care so long as everything still works. And another who just has honey badger levels of IDGAF, like just ate a cabbage like an apple because he wondered what it was like. That kinda extends to everything peak zero fucks what happens happens. I don’t think either of them are wrong exactly, they have no real pride in not voting just no skin in the game. I think that’s true of most non-voters. Never met a proud non-voter. The closest would be a votes only for third parties on principle that the two party system is broken. Which at that point is still voting so idk

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      People who are proud of not playing games at the carnival make me angry. It’s one thing to quietly not play them because you know the games are rigged. It’s a whole higher level to proudly declare you refuse to play them because you can’t be bothered to care about the carnival.